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Amherst Central Alumni Foundation, Inc. announces $23,557 in Grant Awards for 2023-24 school year

Posted by amherstalumnioffice on 2024-04-24
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The Amherst Central Alumni Foundation, Inc. Grant Committee awarded $23,557 for requests submitted by faculty and staff for the 2023-24 school year. Grants were awarded in all four schools for academics, technology, sports, arts, and special education. Among the grants awarded were: Books for the Amherst Central School District Family Support Center; High School – Italian Exchange Program, Pit Orchestra Stand Lights, Student Council Leadership Conference, Black History Month Activities; Middle School – 8th grade field trips, Adult-Student Mentoring Program, Life Skills Supplies for Developmental Disability Class, Lumber for the Annual Musical, Woodwind Instrument Repairs; Windermere Elementary – Pickleball Equipment, Storyteller Speaker; Smallwood Elementary – Supplies for Kindergarten Integrated Classroom, 2nd Grade Field Trip.

Grants are fully funded by generous alumni donations and other fundraising activities. Grants are awarded for programs that are not funded by the school district budget and are selected based on the most students that will be positively affected.

The Amherst Central Alumni Foundation, Inc. has awarded over $189,000 in grants over the past 20+ years. For more information, please visit our website www.amherstalumni.org.

If you are interested in donating to the foundation, visit https://www.amherstalumni.org/Donate.htm.

Grants In Action: Supporting ACSD Family Support Center’s Lending Library

Posted by amherstalumnioffice on 2024-04-18
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One of the foundation’s spring grant requests was by Amherst Central School Distict’s Family Support Center.

Marlana Howard, LCSW, School Social Worker sent us a nice thank you note for helping fund the center’s lending library.

“Thank you again for choosing the Amherst CSD Family Support Center as a recipient of one of your generous Alumni grants.  This grant helped get our SEL Lending Library off the ground.  As a result of the Alumni Association grant we were able to purchase 204 books and have received several other donations from Amherst families.  

As a grant recipient, we wanted to report back some of the measures taken towards the establishment of the SEL Lending Library, aside from the purchase of books. Those include: 

  • Maintaining our Amazon Wish List for families to peruse and donate if they are interested in contributing.  
  • Acquiring some new bookshelves to accommodate new books.  
  • Purchasing a stamp to mark the cover of each book to identify it as property of Amherst FSC’s 
  • Creating a comprehensive database that lists all of the books that we have and breaks it down so that we are more easily able to recommend and lend books to families based on specific issues they or their children may be struggling with and based on their age ranges. 
  • Developing a lending library agreement that will be utilized for every family who wants to borrow a book.

Below we have included some photos and a screen shot of the database.  Unfortunately, the photos are not with the new bookshelves yet.“

Grants like this are made possible because of the generosity of Amherst Alumni and their donations. If you are interested in donating to the Amherst Central Alumni Foundation to help fund grants like these, visit https://www.amherstalumni.org/Donate.htm.

Grants in Action: A trip to the Buffalo Museum of Science for Windermere First Graders

Posted by amherstalumnioffice on 2023-05-04
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The Amherst Central Alumni Foundation, Inc. recently funded a field trip to the Buffalo Museum of Science through our Grant Program for Windermere first graders. The class sent us this really nice thank you video. It’s through generous donations from Amherst Alumni that we are able to fund trips like this and other projects throughout the district. If you are interested in donating, please visit https://www.amherstalumni.org/Donate.htm to help further our mission.

Grants In Action: Middle School Beautification Project

Posted by amherstalumnioffice on 2023-04-13
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Grants in Action! Earlier in the school year, the Amherst Central Alumni Foundation awarded a grant to Middle School Teacher Ms. Whitten for a beautification project to enhance the 6th grade hall at the school. She kindly sent us a thank you and images of the completed project. It’s through donations from Tiger Alumni that allow to fund projects like this.

Please consider a donation to the foundation by visiting https://www.amherstalumni.org/Donate.htm

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Grants in Action: Second Graders at Windermere get a Classroom Library

Posted by amherstalumnioffice on 2022-07-01
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As part of the Amherst Central Alumni Foundation’s (ACAF) grant program, we help fund various initiatives throughout the school district. One of the initiatives funded was a Classroom Library for second graders at Windermere Boulevard Elementary School.

From teacher Hillary Asbeck-Wade in her grant submission, “Our second grade classroom is composed of special education students, English language learners, and general education students. We hope to make a more accessible library space that will better service the diverse learners in our classroom. We hope to better showcase books with diverse characters at a wider range of reading levels in our new library space. This will allow our students to access appropriate texts with ease, enriching their reading experience.”

The ACAF will periodically receive thank yous for our grants. Ms. Asbeck-Wade sent is a nice thank you note along with drawings from the students of them reading books. You can view the note and the drawings by her class by clicking here.

Through the generous support of Amherst Alumni, you helped make this happen.

Please consider donating to the Amherst Central Alumni Foundation to help fund future grants like this. Click here to go to our donation page–>